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Title: Lillian Sato Interview
Narrator: Lillian Sato
Interviewer: Megan Asaka
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: July 6, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-slillian-01-0003

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MA: So your father was farming around the time you were born, around 1928?

LS: Uh-huh, in Stockton.

MA: In Stockton. When did you actually -- 'cause you didn't grow up in Stockton, though, right? You moved...

LS: No, no, not really. We went to Santa Monica in 1936.

MA: Do you have any memories of Stockton at all? Or you were pretty young.

LS: Well, Stockton is, consisted of a lot of islands. And we lived on King Island, and my dad raised a lot of celery there.

MA: Were there other Japanese families living on King Island?

LS: Around there, no, all I remember is there was a lot of Filipino workers.

MA: Who would work on the farms?

LS: Uh-huh. And then when we went to school, my brothers and I would walk to a ferryboat, cross over, even if the school was just on the side of the house, because of the river.

MA: Oh, so you had to...

LS: So we had to walk a ways to the ferry, cross over the, with the ferry, and then walk back to school.

MA: Oh, interesting. So you actually had to take a boat to get to school.

LS: Uh-huh.

MA: How big was that island? How many families were living there?

LS: Oh, it consisted of, I imagine, about ten or four camp-like. It was a fair-sized island.

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